Ray Allen Quotes
My nature is to keep things inside. In time, I'll be comfortable stepping up when I think the team could use my input.
Quotes to Explore
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Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
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I think that when somebody loses a bet, they tend to sometimes confuse their motives in rooting and enjoying the game because if you lose your bet, even though the team you're rooting for wins, you have a potentially conflicted outcome.
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Feeling comfortable in my own skin has never been easy for me.
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I think a balanced team of men and women makes better decisions. That's one of the reasons why I was prepared to run for deputy leader.
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As a hockey player, playing for an Original Six team at Madison Square Garden, where it's packed every night, there's nothing like it.
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I had been on this improv team at this really great improv theater. It's called iO now. It used to be called Improv Olympic. They have showcases for Lorne Michaels and other writers and people who work at 'SNL' usually about once a year, although I don't know if it always happens.
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I am the type of artist where you can't tell me anything. I have always been that way. I am right. I don't need any input.
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I used to teach improv courses in Amsterdam where we would do team-building exercises, and they can go south very quickly.
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I danced for 12 years, and I played a lot team sports: basketball, volleyball.
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Let students use technologies in the classroom.
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Teamwork requires some sacrifice up front; people who work as a team have to put the collective needs of the group ahead of their individual interests.
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Meetings are the linchpin of everything. If someone says you have an hour to investigate a company, I wouldn't look at the balance sheet. I'd watch their executive team in a meeting for an hour. If they are clear and focused and have the board on the edge of their seats, I'd say this is a good company worth investing in.
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General Petraeus is not a miracle worker. He can not be successful unless the president creates greater confidence within his own team about the decisions which the president has himself made.
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Now, on the St. Louis team we have Who's on first, What's on second, I Don't Know is on third.
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I had great relationship with the Hispanic - we had a lot of Hispanics in the school actually from different countries, Venezuela, from Brazil, and they all played soccer, and I was on the soccer team, and I developed great relationships with them.
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All it took was one conversation to know that Reebok was the right home for our team.
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It was part of my recruiting to go to Cal because they knew I loved to play baseball. I don't know if I was good enough to make the team, but I worked out with the guys, and it was a lot of fun.
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We always had to play the game and play for the team. It is a Kent tradition.
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The politician has no more use for pride than Falstaff had for honour.
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I find it quite boring when people do things that are very considered and thought through. I like things best when they're just done because they're fun or beautiful, or simply because they are what that one person wanted to do at that one time.
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You cannot achieve happiness. Happiness happens and is a transitory stage. Imagine how happy I felt when I got relief from bladder pressure. How long did that happiness last?
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No man knows himself as an original.
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I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten, - happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another.
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My nature is to keep things inside. In time, I'll be comfortable stepping up when I think the team could use my input.
